Yearly Archives: 2008

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Zombie movies = economic barometer

Just saw this today via Information Design Watch. Apparently there’s a correlation between the nastiness of the eco-political environment around us and the production of zombie movies. One can imagine the studios are already hard at work for next year!


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Flow charting the bailout

Great design doesn’t make it less depressing, unfortunately. Continued… see the whole scary story on Mint.com.


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Mapping the political landscape

Maps depicting the current standings in Electoral College votes for the presidency are in every newspaper. We are accustomed to viewing the political landscape in state-sized chunks, since that’s how the final votes are tallied. The New York Times, in my opinion a leader in…


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Lightbox fatigue

Jacob Nielsen just proclaimed the lightbox the “interaction design technique of the year“: In UI terms, a lightbox draws the user’s attention to a dialog box, error message, or other design element in the middle of the screen by dimming the rest of the screen.…


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Where are the women in open-source?

Great presentation about the perceived lack of women in open-source development. (I love that she mentions ravelry.com, my favorite web community, as an example of a site built on open-source software!) Form an orderly queue, ladies (OSCON, 2008) view presentation (tags: oscon2008 foss women in…


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